This keeps happening

Can’t get all those poor children, who have been taken or watched their parents being taken by ICE, out of my head. This is how future “terrorists” get radicalised.

But he did! Via Trump

And they call Muslims barbarian.

My dog is trilingual and also responds to gestures. But only if she wants to.

Practicing expressions of superiority on my face after years of western friends feeling smug about the lack of democracy in my birth country. As if it was my personal moral failure.

This is not Level 7 yet, but it’s a preparation for it.

Level 7 begins when language, naming, time, or history are formally rewritten, when reality is required to speak the leader’s version.

The system hasn’t been replaced, but the replacement is being rehearsed.

Well, the speed of moving from 6 to 7 on the Dictator Delusion scale has picked up.

• officials repeating obvious falsehoods as policy
• institutions acting on personal grievance
• diplomacy, law, or force justified by invented narratives
• dissent treated as reality-violation, not disagreement

Level 7 itself begins when language, naming, time, or history are formally rewritten. When reality is required to speak the leader’s version.

That’s why the moment matters:
the system hasn’t been replaced, but the replacement is being rehearsed.

Before that shift locks in, there’s a rehearsal phase:
• officials repeating obvious falsehoods as policy
• institutions acting on personal grievance
• diplomacy, law, or force justified by invented narratives
• dissent treated as reality-violation, not disagreement

What do you expect from the Appeaser-in-Chief?

Same!

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“She is ugly/unkempt” and “she doesn’t have sex” is treated as a serious argument even among the liberals. Sadly, mainly (if not only) in relation to women.

I find it interesting how many in the West are perplexed by Megyn Kelly’s logic here. If you, like me, had the misfortune of hanging around Russians when they speak their language, you’d know that it’s a very common way to frame things in their culture. Coincidence?

Appealing to national safety as a justification for diluting institutions is a classic dictator move

It’s so confusing to read your posts like this for us non-Americans who followed you for your political takes

Dictators are predictable to a fault. The repeat the same moves, century after century, country after country.

Who will bring back dead Palestinians, Ukrainians, Nigerians etc? Who will bring back Renee Good and many others murdered by ICE. The damage is irreversible and so is the loss of trust.

That’s why it’s double points for “you are exaggerating” and a break for “this time it’s different” on my Dictator Bingo card

I think it’s some new form of American exceptionalism - “this could never happen here”. Yet dictators are so very predictable, they all follow a pattern

Plenty of fascists in Europe too, unfortunately

I have a Dictator Bingo card in my profile and it’s filling up alarmingly quickly.

I just quietly fill my Dictator Bingo card

This is too cute! But as a horse rider I am begging you to put a helmet on the baby…

Referring to self in third person is a sign of progression Dictator Delusion Scale and a tick on my Dictator Bingo

That’s quite a few ticks on my Dictator Bingo

Bending reality is a classic dictator move. He is not there yet. He’s sure trying.

As someone who studies dictators, I am afraid they are always so very predictable.

They get you extra points on my Dictator Bingo card.

Yes, “you are exaggerating” and “this time it’s different” are the two phrases that enable dictators the most.